474 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1727.

             Lib. x. Upon Consideration of the Letter from the President of

                 Virginia as also the Hue and Cry under the Great Seal of that

             P. 173    Colony (heretofore laid before this Board by his Excellency)

                 requesting and desiring the Governor and other Officers and

                 Ministers of Justice within this Province to be Aiding and

                 Assisting by their Authority to apprehend Philip Hammond

                 William Hammond and John Howard Inhabitants of this

                 Province for a Robbery Committed on a certain Richard

                 Thacker in that Colony in Order to bring them to Justice in

                 the said Colony this Board are of Opinion that a Provincial

                 Magistrate (in prosecution of the aforesaid request) cause the

                 said persons therein mentioned to be apprehended

                  And thereupon it is Advised and Ordered that Philip Lee

                 Esqr one of the Justices of the Provincial Court issue such

                 Proper Process as to him shall seem meet in Order to Convey

                 the said Felons in the said Hue and Cry mentioned to some

                 one Magistrate of the Colony of Virginia there to be dealt

                 with according to Law

                  Charles Calvert and Benjamin Tasker Esqrs heretofore

                 Appointed to Agree with Workmen to Prop and Support the

                 Floor of the Council Chamber laid before this Board the Ir

                 reparable State and Condition of the same

                  Thereupon it is Ordered that the said Charles Calvert and

                 Benjamin Tasker Esqrs do agree with John Smith Carpenter

                 to new Floor the same according to such proposalls as shall

                 be delivered to them by the said Smith and Approved of by

                 the said Charles Calvert and Benjamin Tasker for which he

                 the said Smith is to be paid Twenty Six pounds Current

                 Money

             p.   174 Maryland SSt

                  At a Council held at the House of the Honourable Charles

                 Calvert Esqr in the City of Annapolis on Saturday the ninth

                 of September in the 12th year of his Lordships Dominion

                 Annoq Dni 1727

                               Was Present

                  His Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Esqr Governor

                            Colo Wm Holland

                             Philemon Lloyd Esqr

                                  1             Members of his

                             Colo Richard Tilghman

                  the honble Colo M T Ward      Lordships honble

                             Benjamin Tasker Esqr    Council

                             Charles Calvert Esqr

                  His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board a

                 Gazette printed at Boston wherein is Contained an Account

                 of the death of our late Gracious Sovereign Lord King George